The problem is that
the Inquisitors are just getting started.
President Donald J. Trump,
for all his defects, speaks to white Americans, badgered ceaselessly, told to
renounce their heritage and confess ancestral sins. Too many of them — millions
— have put up quite a while with censure they feel is unwarranted and unjust.
They are in revolt against their priestly inquisitors, and a new round of the
culture wars is underway.
This quasi-religious caste
and its diversity catechism now direct the nation’s institutions. Not only in
media, academe, advertising, and entertainment but also in corporations,
government, and the military, chaplains of diversity enforce the new canon law.
Convinced of its special moral vision, this caste has no intention of ceding
power or tolerating freethinkers. Its job is to root out and suppress heretics
and haters — and to propagate articles of holy faith.
As a result, freedom of
conscience and science are under unique attack. Intersectional preference,
white privilege, rape culture, disparate impact, equal outcomes, and any number
of specious ideas are becoming institutional doctrine.
Tech mogul Tim Gill establishes a $300 million LGBT advocacy
foundation “to punish the wicked.” At Google, Danielle Brown, Vice President of
Diversity, Integrity and Governance — what an episcopal title, redolent of
divine grace — and other corporate officers made it clear after the Damore memorandum that reasonable
contestations of the catechism are “not OK,” that is, anathema.
Writing in Psychology
Today, Rutgers University psychologist Lee Russim discerns a new McCarthyism in the name of
fighting sexism and racism. “I am concerned that such stigma and blacklists
will include researchers who study group differences, especially evolutionary
or biological bases of group differences [and] anyone who has the temerity to
question the wisdom of diversity programs, affirmative action, bias
reporting systems, microaggression training, implicit bias training, and the
like,” he stated.
He should be
worried. A notable University of Pennsylvania law professor recently drew
campus-wide rebuke and open condemnation from five colleagues
for “assertions of white cultural superiority.” She had openly praised
bourgeois ideals of marriage, hard work, patriotism, and good conduct as a superior
cultural model and means of reducing social pathology.
“White people are being
asked — or pushed — to take stock of their whiteness and identify with it more.
This is a remarkably bad idea,” Daniel Marcus warned in a prescient 2016 article on
white nationalism. “The last thing our society needs is for white people to
feel more tribal. The result of this tribalism will not be a catharsis of white
identity, improving equality for non-whites. It will be resentment towards
being the only tribe not given the special treatment bestowed by victimhood.”
It’s not belligerent white
trash — yes there is that, sure, if you look for it — but bourgeois, striving “normies”
who are tired of scorn and abuse. Americans of all backgrounds would like black
America to succeed, but if it can’t, and if it makes their own lives miserable,
they won’t take the blame much longer. They’ll find a way of avoiding danger
and disorder. It’s that simple.
For diversity’s chaplains,
the long game is to render America’s Anglo-European heritage reprehensible and
write a new history for themselves. The short game is to get rid of President
Trump.
In the post-Charlottesville
pile up, it was not enough to say President Trump is a demagogue or public
figure unfit for the presidency. He is a racist and Nazi sympathizer. White
supremacists are the Administration’s base. Nazis are terrorizing America. New
indictments come daily. Blaming Trump for a wave of anti-Semitism might come
next.
Parents, taxpayers, and
strivers with modest assets and a decent job — many who come from immigrant
families — who have overcome poverty and misfortune, resent being the perpetual
bad guys in the catechism. It’s little wonder they hope a brassy showman with
minimal concept of constitutional government will act as their tribune and
redeemer.
For a long time white
America went along for the most part with the blame shifting. Millions still
remember 2008 promises of racial healing and harmony, and many voted for Barack
Obama solely on that account. Look what happened there. They feel conned for a
reason.
There are so many ways to
earn the priesthood’s wrath. In polite circles, to mention the race-related
decay of Detroit, St. Louis, or Baltimore is off limits. You’re the problem,
not the solution. Ghetto crime, family collapse, rap filth, or anti-white
hatred? Dead silence and uncomfortable looks. Insisting on XX and XY
chromosome-based sexuality, you know, male and female? You just don’t get it.
Cheap alien labor at the expense of the nation’s native-born? Let’s not go
there. Jihad? Africa? Zionism? Well, that does it!
Wasting no time after
Charlottesville, high priestess and would-be next president of Harvard
University Danielle S. Allen, professor of government and education, heralds the catechism in the Washington
Post:
We will forswear violent protest and lock arms across boundaries
of difference to revive commitments to nonviolence. We will see the full range
of experience in this country — rural, suburban and urban; poor, middling and
rich; atheistic, agnostic and faithful; gay, straight and bisexual; male,
female and trans; Latino, Asian, white, black, Native American, multiracial and
everything in between. Across this full range of American life and its dizzying,
dazzling array of intersections, we will find ways to ward off desperation and
chaos. Indivisible, we will achieve liberty, justice and dignity for all. Amid
unprecedented social heterogeneity, these are the political and social
conditions in which free institutions can be revived and endure.
How Prof. Allen? Just how?
That’s a neat rhetorical leap from rainbow talk to linking “unprecedented
social heterogeneity” and enduring free institutions in your punch line. Since
you have insisted elsewhere that Harvard University needs to change its
“symbolic repertoire,” erasing its Puritan past, what do you have in mind for
the nation, really, underneath these carefully coded words?
Prof. Allen is playing
nice, of course, and she’s good at it. But inquisitors lurk in the shadows. Do
you not confess to Europe’s 500-year dance macabre and earth rape? Do you not
abjure White Christian America and its systemic racism? Shame on you, say the
chaplains, throwing up their arms in despair. The Expulsions and Excommunications
team arrives from Human Resources, ringing bells, closing books, and blowing
out candles.
Security will now escort
you out the door.
